October 8, 2017

L'Oasis Musicale: Concerts at the Cathedral and at St George's

James Tissot, The Cornerstone, Brooklyn Museum, 1886-94

“The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone [NRSV, Matt. 21:42].”

The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Harvest Thanksgiving

10:00 am Choral Eucharist

The Cathedral Singers

Prelude:  Nun danket alle Gott, BWV 657 [listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Setting: Mass in D, Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)

Introit: Nun danket alle Gott, BWV 657 [text] [YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach

Motet: Thou visitest the earth [text], [YouTube] Maurice Greene (1696-1755)

Postlude: Paraphrase sur le Te Deum [YouTube], Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)    

12h45 Eucharistie chantée

Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale

Prelude :  Prelude et Allemande de Pastorale, BWV 590 [écoutez], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Ordinaire :  Missa quatuor vocum, Joan Cererols (1618-76)

Introït : Laudate nomen Domini [texte/YouTube], Christopher Tye (1505-73)

Motet :  Cibavit eos [texte] [YouTube], William Byrd (1543-1623)

Postlude :  Aria et Gigue de Pastorale, BWV 590 [écoutez], Johann Sebastian Bach

4:00 pm Evensong

The Cathedral Singers

(For live streaming via Radio Ville Marie, click here)

Prelude: Versets sur le Te Deum [listen], Livre d’orgue de Montréal (1724)

Introit: Hear my prayer, O Lord [text] [YouTube], Henry Purcell (1659-95)

Preces: Richard Ayleward (1626-69)

Psalm: 102, vv 1-13, 25-28, Wesley, Davy

Magnificat: Service in g [YouTube], Henry Purcell

Nunc dimittis: Service in g [YouTube], Henry Purcell

Anthem: My Prayer [text] [YouTube], Bob Chilcott (b. 1955)

Postlude: Te Deum [YouTube], Pēteris Vasks (b. 1946)